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Quotes About Presence

Everyday is a Blessing. You're lucky to be here. The second your eyes opened and you saw today, someone Died. APPRECIATE LIFE!
~ Unknown
Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The dead have a presence.
~ Don DeLillo
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.
~ Harold Brodkey
Death walks among us
~ Unknown
The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.
~ Benjamin R. Smith
We're roughage, " Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.
~ Unknown
Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.
~ Unknown
Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?
~ Unknown
Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
~ Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.
~ Neil Gaiman, The Wake
But even then I knew it wasn't me that saved her life. It wasn't about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn't.
~ Lucy Corin
You can't miss me, because I was never there.
~ Unknown
If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
There are moments in life. And, yes, still moments in death.
~ Unknown
Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.
~ Paul Cookson
The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.
~ Wilfred Bion
Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with me and I with Thee; Thou all mine and I all Thine.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.
~ Gary Zukav
The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.
~ Terry Riley
As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?
~ Jack Kornfield
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
~ Ravi Zacharias